The Last Hours Quotes

“Matthew spoke in a low voice. “It would be one thing if James loved her. I would go into the quiet dark like Jem did and never speak of her again. But he doesn’t love her.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“We are Shadowhunters. We do not wait to be saved by others. We save ourselves.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“We all carry a light inside ourselves. It burns with the flame of ours souls. But there are other people in our lives who add their own flames to ours, creating a brighter conflagration.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“I realized you were leaving and I ran after you, because when someone you love is leaving, all you think about is getting them back.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“Anna has a quality.” Matthew raised a thoughtful eyebrow. “The French would call it jolie laide.” Cordelia knew French well enough to frown. “Pretty-ugly? She’s not ugly!” “It doesn’t mean that,” Matthew said. “It means unusually pretty. Oddly beautiful. It denotes having a face with character.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“It is the gifts we did not have the strength to ask for that matter the most.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“Suddenly James was there, throwing an arm around her from behind. He seemed heedless of Cortana as he drew her back against him, whispering in her ear, "'Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor demons, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us.' Do you understand? Keep hold of me, Daisy. Keep hold of me and don't let go.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“We become what we are afraid we will be, Layla.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“By the name of Lilith," he drawled. "Hide the breakables. Hide the whole house. Christopher Lightwood is here.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“I know," he said, "but sometimes we leave people to protect ourselves, don't we? Not because we don't want to be with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“I suppose it depends on your definition of love. Love that will give up nothing, love that one is willing to sacrifice for a more comfortable life, is not love, in my opinion. Love should come above all other things.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“Cordelia clamped her lips together tightly, as if she were struggling not to cry. Christopher looked terribly alarmed. "Oh, what ho, tears," he said helplessly. "Ghastly- not that you shouldn't cry if you wish, of course. Cry like the blazes, Cordelia."
"Christopher," said James darkly. "You are not helping.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Cordelia glanced down. She was scratched, but that was nothing to the spot in her heart where the knowledge that she was Lilith's paladin now bit like teeth. She couldn't look at James- she glanced over and saw Lucie, who was kneeling by Jesse's body. He lay where he had fallen, motionless and unbreathing. If he had not been truly dead before, he was now. Lucie looked utterly lost.
Cordelia closed her eyes, and hot tears spilled down her cheeks, scorching her skin.
"Daisy," she heard James say; she felt his stele brush over her arm, the faint sting and then the numbness of healing runes being applied. "Daisy, my love, I'm so sorry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“I am not sure we choose who we love," said Cordelia, turning toward the door. "I rather think love is something like a book written just for us, a sort of holy text it is given to us to interpret." She paused in the doorway, looking back over her shoulder. "And you are refusing to read yours.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“And she had learned that things could not be changed by willing them to be different. Dreams, hopes, wishes, were just like that. Strength lay in keeping tight hold of reality, even if it was like grasping a stinging nettle in her hand.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“If it were not for you, my Daisy, I would have belonged to Belial long ago. For there is no one else in this world, my most beautiful, maddening, adorable wife, that I could ever have loved half as much as I have loved you. My heart beats for you," he said. "Only ever you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“No matter how dark and hopeless the world seemed, Lucie could always find beauty in a story.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“You ought to be adored above all things, for you are wonderful. You ought to have someone's whole heart. But I do not have a whole heart to give you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“I know. Math, it's not a question of being perfect. What you are trying to do is incredibly difficult. You may falter at times. But I do not believe a moment of weakness is failure. Not as long as you keep trying.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“What I am putting behind me is the keeping of secrets. Not every secret" - she smiled a little - "but the kind we keep because of shame, or some imagined failing that others will judge. Our failings are always more monstrous in our own eyes than any others'; in the eyes of those who love us, we are forgiven.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“It is a dreadful chore, being the eldest."

-Alastair Carstairs”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“Pity and kindness were not love. Only free choice was love; if he had learned nothing else from the horror of the bracelet, he had learned that.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“Try not to collect any painful memories, Lucie," he said. "Do not get too attached to anything, or anyone. For if you lose them, the memory will burn in your mind like a poison for which there will never be any cure.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“I know people hurt one another. I know relationships are complicated. Believe me. But it's been my experience that - well, that when everyone loves one another enough, there will always be a way for things to come out all right in the end.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“She was a Carstairs, a Jahanshah. The blood of Rostam ran in her veins. She would dress in fire if she liked.”
― Cassandra Clare

“It's just hard to know, when you have a secret ... will telling it bring healing? Or just more hurt? Isn't it selfish, to unburden myself just to relieve my own conscience?”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“But you cannot fix someone, Cordelia, " she added. "In the end, if they can be fixed at all, they must do the repairs themselves.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“I know you were a captive there, Kieran said. But I would like to think you came to see something good in it as you saw something good in me. There is so much that is good in you, Kieran.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“There is no special protection in this world for kind people.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“I'm coming down but it's going to take me a moment. This ladder is held together by old runes and the spirit of optimism.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns